Ichikawa, Tokyo

Daisuke Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090315876

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes an input section configured to input a plurality of types of video signals; and a timing controller configured to perform, separately for each of split regions that are obtained by splitting a display region of a display device, control of timing at which a corresponding one of videos corresponding to the plurality of types of video signals is displayed in the split region.

12-24-2009

Erina Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20110019029

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - An image processing apparatus, including: an image obtaining means that obtains an image; a color area detecting means that detects a predetermined color area from the image thus obtained by the image obtaining means; an area specifying means that specifies an area to be adjusted based on saturation and brightness of the color area thus detected by the color area detecting means; and a color adjusting means that adjusts at least one of a hue, the saturation and the brightness of a pixel in the process area thus specified by the area specifying means.

IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS FOR ENABLING GENERATION OF DATA OF PANORAMIC IMAGE WITH WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE - An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing section, an image capturing control section, an image clipping section, an HDR composing section and a panoramic image composing section. The image capturing control section causes the image capturing section to repeatedly capture an image of different luminance to provide plural images of different luminance. The image clipping section clips respective data of substantially overlapping image regions of the plural images of different luminance. The HDR composing section composes the image regions each clipped by the image clipping section to generate data of plural composite images having a wider dynamic range than the image captured by the image capturing section. The panoramic image composing section joins data of the plural composite images generated by the HDR composing section to generate an image whose range is wider than that of the image captured by the image capturing section.

10-04-2012

Fumihiko Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20110172153

SCREENING METHODS USING G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTORS AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS - The present invention provides screening methods for GPCRs based on the discovery that the affinity of a receptor agonist for a GPCR (such as the parathyroid hormone receptor) when not bound to a G-protein is correlated with the length of time over which the agonist is effective, independently of its pharmacokinetic properties. The invention also provides PTH- and PTHrP-derived polypeptides.

07-14-2011

20140086842

SCREENING METHODS USING G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTORS AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS - The present invention provides screening methods for GPCRs based on the discovery that the affinity of a receptor agonist for a GPCR (such as the parathyroid hormone receptor) when not bound to a G-protein is correlated with the length of time over which the agonist is effective, independently of its pharmacokinetic properties. The invention also provides PTH- and PTHrP-derived polypeptides.

Text Composition - A method of text composition comprising: displaying a string of characters as text, the text comprising an arrangement of graphical symbols wherein each of the graphical symbols corresponds to a character in the string; and controlling the visual attributes of the displayed text such that at least the graphical symbol corresponding to a final character in the string has a first visual attribute that differentiates it from the other graphical symbols in the displayed text that have a second visual attribute.

07-02-2009

Fumio Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090159397

PASSENGER CONVEYOR - Obtained is a passenger conveyor that, in the case of the elongation of a step chain of the passenger conveyor, causes a hydraulic cylinder to move a lower-part step chain wheel, thereby absorbing a slack in the step chain and tensioning the step chain with any push-out force. In a passenger conveyor provided with a step chain tensioning device that, in the case of the elongation of a step chain, causes a lower-part step chain wheel to move, thereby absorbing a slack in the step chain and tensioning the step chain with any tensioning force, the step chain tensioning device includes a tensioning device section, which has a hydraulic cylinder and pushes out the lower-part step chain wheel with a push-out force of the hydraulic cylinder on a side where the step chain is tensioned, and a pressure device section, which has a pressure piston to which a load by a weight is applied and causes the hydraulic cylinder of the tensioning device section to constantly give any tension to the step chain via a hydraulic oil due to the pressure of the pressure piston.

06-25-2009

Fumito Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20120064205

IMPREGNATED FOOD - An impregnated food in which a solid edible material is impregnated with a liquid food having a viscosity of 10,000 to 100,000 mPa·s at 35° C. has a good taste of the liquid food, has nevertheless a not hard texture, and achieves a sense of unity between the solid edible material and the liquid food. The impregnated food can be produced by a process for producing an impregnated food, wherein in a hermetically closed system, the system is pressurized in a state where a solid edible material is made contact with a liquid food, and then, the pressure in the system is returned to the atmospheric pressure.

03-15-2012

20140161948

IMPREGNATED FOOD - An impregnated food in which a solid edible material is impregnated with a liquid food having a viscosity of 10,000 to 100,000 mPa·s at 35° C. has a good taste of the liquid food, has nevertheless a not hard texture, and achieves a sense of unity between the solid edible material and the liquid food. The impregnated food can be produced by a process for producing an impregnated food, wherein in a hermetically closed system, the system is pressurized in a state where a solid edible material is made contact with a liquid food, and then, the pressure in the system is returned to the atmospheric pressure.

Hirotoschi Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090161223

Anti-reflection layer with nano particles - A micromirror device includes a particle-containing anti-reflection layer that covers at least a portion of the device or its package other than a mirror surface. The size of the particle may be smaller than or equal to the wavelength of light incident on the micromirror device, or smaller than or equal to 800 nm, preferably at least 380 nm but smaller than or equal to 800 nm. The particles may be metal particles, preferably TiN particles.

06-25-2009

Hisayoshi Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20100015380

Method And Apparatus For Pattern Transfer, And Annular Recording Medium - An apparatus for transferring a pattern of minute surface structures, using a pair of press members which are located opposingly for movements toward and away from each other. One press member is adapted to support thereon a mold having on a transfer surface a master pattern of minute structures to be transferred, while the other press member is adapted to support thereon an annular substrate plate having a curable resin layer coated thereon and to press the resin layer against the transfer surface of the mold to transfer said minute structures to the resin layer. The mod is provided with a circular center hole defining at least three small-diameter segments and three large-diameter segments alternately and at uniform angular intervals along an inner periphery of the mold. The annular substrate plate has an inside diameter exactly matching with the small-diameter segments at the inner periphery of the mold. A chuck mechanism is provided inside of the lower press member, the chuck mechanism having at least three chuck pawls located in uniformly spaced positions along inner periphery of the substrate plate. The chuck pawls are radially displaceable to take either an operative position or a receded position, and are adapted to grip the inner periphery of the substrate together the small-diameter segments of the center hole of the mold at the time of setting the substrate plate in alignment with the mold, and to grip the inner periphery of said substrate plate alone, at spaced positions from the large-diameter segments of the center hole of the mold, at the time of separating the substrate plate from said mold.

01-21-2010

20100092684

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COATING RESIN - Method and apparatus for coating a surface of a work with a thin resin or plastic film suitable for use in imprinting a pattern by impressing a master pattern on a transfer surface of a mold on the coated resin film. A curable resin liquid is coated on a work by the use of an inkjet feed means having a plural number of inkjet nozzle holes in a row or rows on a nozzle assembly, in association with actuators to propel droplets of resin liquid from the respective inkjet nozzle holes in controlled timings while moving the inkjet feed means and the work relative to each other.

04-15-2010

20100156006

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPRINTING ENERGY RAY-SETTING RESIN, AND DISCS AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WITH IMPRINTED RESIN LAYER - Disclosed herein is a method for transferring a pattern of minute dents and projections to an energy ray-setting resin layer coated on a substrate plate by pressing a master pattern on a transfer mold, followed by irradiation of energy rays. The pattern transfer method comprises the steps of pressing a master pattern on a transfer mold against the resin layer under a predetermined imprinting pressure, irradiating the resin layer under the imprinting pressure with energy rays, interrupting the irradiation of energy rays and at the same time cancelling application of the imprinting pressure and holding the resin layer and the transfer mold in a non-pressed state to relieve the resin layer of internal stresses, and recommencing irradiation of the resin layer with energy rays to complete hardening of the resin layer which is held in contact with the transfer mold in a non-pressed state.

Adhesive Composition, Adhesive Sheet and Production Process for Semiconductor Device - An adhesive sheet which can actualize a high package reliability wherein there is no separation at the adhesive interface and no package cracking, in a package in which a semiconductor chip being reduced in thickness is mounted under severe reflow conditions after exposure to a hot and humid environment. The adhesive sheet includes a base material and, formed thereon, an adhesive layer having an adhesive composition including an acrylic copolymer (A) containing 20 to 95% by weight of a structural unit derived from a benzyl(meth)acrylate, an epoxy thermosetting resin (B), and a thermosetting agent (C).

01-01-2009

20090170284

Adhesive Composition, Adhesive Sheet and Production Process for Semiconductor Device - The object of the present invention is to provide an adhesive composition which can form a thinner adhesive layer, which has good storage stability and which can actualize high package reliability even when exposed to severe reflow conditions in a semiconductor package in which a semiconductor chip being reduced in a thickness is mounted, and an adhesive sheet having an adhesive layer comprising the adhesive composition.

07-02-2009

20090246913

Adhesive Composition, Adhesive Sheet and Production Method of Semiconductor Device - The object of the present invention is to provide an adhesive composition that enables to produce conforming products with a high manufacturing yield and without breaking or chipping of the chips in the picking-up step and that enables to stably connect a wire without contaminating a wire pad part disposed at the circumference of a bonding surface during a wire bonding step that is performed after die bonding, even in the case of chips being reduced in a thickness.

10-01-2009

20090246915

Adhesive Composition, Adhesive Sheet and Production Method of Semiconductor Device - The object of the present invention is to provide an adhesive composition that enables to produce conforming products with a high manufacturing yield and without breaking or chipping of the chips in the picking-up step and that enables to stably connect a wire without contaminating a wire pad part disposed at the circumference of a bonding surface during a wire bonding step that is performed after die bonding, even in the case of chips being reduced in a thickness.

10-01-2009

20100133703

Semiconductor Chip Laminate and Adhesive Composition for Semiconductor Chip Lamination - A semiconductor chip laminate comprises a plurality of semiconductor chips and an adhesive layer through which the plurality of semiconductor chips are laminated, wherein the adhesive layer is composed of an adhesive composition comprising an acrylic polymer (A); an epoxy resin (B); a thermal curing agent (C); and a certain organic phosphine compound (D) as a thermal curing accelerator, and the content of the organic phosphine compound (D) relative to 100 parts by weight in total of the epoxy resin (B) and the thermal curing agent (C) is 0.001 to 15 parts by weight.

Junichi Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20080242986

ULTRASONIC OBSERVATION APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An ultrasonic observation apparatus generates respective ultrasonic images from sound ray data obtained by a detachable electron scanning ultrasonic probe and detachable mechanical scanning ultrasonic probe and includes a coordinate transformation table for use to generate image data at pixel locations for display from the sound ray data obtained by the electron scanning ultrasonic probe and mechanical scanning ultrasonic probe, and a control unit which detects a type or range of the electron scanning ultrasonic probe or mechanical scanning ultrasonic probe and regenerates the coordinate transformation table based on the detected type or range of the electron scanning ultrasonic probe or mechanical scanning ultrasonic probe.

10-02-2008

20110160588

ULTRASOUND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ULTRASOUND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a control section that performs control such that an ROI is displayed on a screen upon input of a predetermined command. The ROI is for displaying a flow mode image of a region including a start point and an end point of a puncture path of a puncture needle that appears on a screen of an ultrasound image when the puncture needle is protruded from an ultrasound probe.

06-30-2011

Patent applications by Junichi Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

Kanako Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20130000019

WORKING GLASSES - Grooves are formed in the inner surface of two rims, and a part of the inner side of each of the grooves is formed as a cutout section. Lenses are removed from the rims while avoiding the interference between a stopper member, which is pivotably provided to a bridge, and inner regions of the rims by pivoting downward the stopper member. Then, new lenses are inserted through the inner regions. After that, the stopper member is rotated upward and fixed to the bridge. As a result, the stopper member interferes with the inner regions of each of the rims to firmly fix the lenses within the rims.

01-03-2013

20130308087

GLASSES - Glasses, in which a temple is provided for an end piece of a front frame, includes an intermediate member which is made of an elastic material and is provided between the end piece and the temple with one end connected to the end piece and the other end connected to the temple, the elastic material elastically deforming more easily than the end piece and the temple.

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, NON-CONTACT POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - A non-contact power supply system is provided employing an electric power transmitting device which can improve the transmission efficiency of electric power, suppressing the circuit scale. The electric power transmitting device is configured with a resonance circuit including a resonance capacity and a resonance coil acting as a transmitting antenna, and a first coil arranged magnetically coupled with the resonance coil. The electric power transmitting device transmits electric power in a non-contact manner using resonant coupling of the resonance circuit. When transmitting the electric power, the electric power transmitting device controls the first coil to connect or disconnect both ends thereof so as to bring a resonance frequency of the resonance circuit close to a frequency of an electric power transmission signal outputted as the electric power to be transmitted.

12-25-2014

Kazuoki Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20110300844

METHOD FOR RESTRICTING COMMUNICATING SERVICE IN ROAMING IN MULTI MODE TERMINAL AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method for performing roaming in a dual mode terminal, which includes a first wireless communication module corresponding to a first communication network and a second wireless communication module corresponding to a second communication network, is disclosed. The method comprises acquiring a public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier by camping on the first communication network; determining whether connection to the first communication network is roaming by comparing roaming decision information included in the PLMN identifier with roaming decision information stored in the dual mode terminal; turning off the second wireless communication module if it is determined that connection to the first communication network is roaming; and transmitting and receiving a signal to and from the first communication network.

12-08-2011

Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20120241420

BUTT WELDING JOINT USING HIGH-ENERGY DENSITY BEAM - A welding joint comprises a pair of steel materials, and a welding metal that is formed with a high-energy density beam at a butt welding portion between the pair of steel materials, wherein a transformation starting temperature Ms that is calculated by a following formula: Ms(° C.)=371−353C−22Si−24.3Mn−7.7Cu−17.3Ni−17.7Cr−25.8Mo, using a composition of mass % of the welding metal is 250° C. or less.

09-27-2012

20120288324

BUTT-WELDED JOINT OF WELDED STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention provides a butt-welded joint of a welded structure, including: a pair of target metals; a weld bead formed by irradiating a first high-energy density beam to a butt portion between the pair of the target metals, the weld bead having a width W on an irradiated side surface; and a pair of altered zones formed, on a surface of the butt-welded joint having the first high-energy density beam irradiated thereto, by irradiating a second high-energy density beam to the surface, the pair of the altered zones having a band shape extending in parallel to the weld bead, and the pair of the altered zones consisting of a pair of heat-affected portions and molten and solidified metals located on a right side and a left side relative to the center of the weld bead in the width direction.

11-15-2012

20140301888

HIGH-STRENGTH H-BEAM STEEL EXHIBITING EXCELLENT LOW-TEMPERATURE TOUGHNESS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - This H-beam steel contains, in mass %, C, Si, Mn, Al, Ti, N, O, Nb, and B. The H-beam steel has composition in which the amount of Nb and the amount of B satisfy, in mass %, 0.070≦Nb+125B≦0.155, and has a metal structure in which, in a microstructure, an area fraction of bainite is not less than 70%, a total of an area fraction of pearlite and an area fraction of cementite is not more than 15%, and the remainder is at least one of ferrite and island martensite. The effective crystalline-grain size of the bainite is not more than 40 μm, and the thickness of a flange falls in a range of 12 to 40 mm.

10-09-2014

20140301889

HIGH-STRENGTH ULTRA-THICK H-BEAM STEEL - This H-beam steel has a composition including C, Si, Mn, Cu, Ni, V, Al, Ti, B, N, and O, and further including at least one of Mo and Nb, in which Ceq obtained in Equation 1 described below falls in a range of 0.37 to 0.50, the thickness of a flange falls in a range of 100 to 150 mm, and the area fraction of bainite at a depth of one quarter of the thickness of the flange from the external surface of the flange is 60% or more.

Kazuyuki Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

Kenzo Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20110063814

ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes a front case, a rear case whose peripheral portion is brought into engagement with a peripheral portion of the front case and an electrostatic capacity type sensor portion which is encompassed by the front case and the rear case. A primary conductive portion, which is brought into engagement with the sensor portion for electrical connection, is formed on part of an inner surface of the peripheral portion of one of the cases which extends to the engagement portion. By adopting this configuration, the electronic apparatus can be fabricated easily and the operation of a touch switch provided in the electronic apparatus can be stabilized.

03-17-2011

Kimihisa Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090191587

METHOD FOR HIGH-LEVEL SECRETORY PRODUCTION OF PROTEIN - This invention provides a means for enabling high-level secretory production of proteins, in particular proteins having complicated structures such as antibodies, in host cells such as yeast cells. The invention also provides transformed yeast cells having the activated HAC1 gene and the RRBP1 gene and a method for enabling high-level secretory production of foreign proteins using such transformed host cells by inhibiting O-sugar chain formation indigenous to host cells such as yeast cells.

DR5 LIGAND DRUG CONJUGATES - Ligand Drug Conjugates are provided having a DR5 binding moiety attached via linking groups and/or spacers to a therapeutic agent and are effective in treatment of various cancers.

03-24-2011

20110269942

ANTIBODIES MODIFIED WITH HYDROPHOBIC MOLECULE - The present invention relates to an immunoliposome preparation or a hydrophobic molecule-modified antibody having a therapeutic effect on cancer, autoimmune disease, or inflammatory disease. Specifically, the present invention relates to an immunoliposome or a hydrophobic molecule-modified antibody comprising, as a constituent, an antibody capable of inducing the apoptosis of cells expressing a death domain-containing receptor.

11-03-2011

20130280282

DR5 LIGAND DRUG CONJUGATES - Ligand Drug Conjugates are provided having a DR5 binding moiety attached via linking groups and/or spacers to a therapeutic agent that are effective in treatment of various cancers.

10-24-2013

20150079114

DR5 LIGAND DRUG CONJUGATES - Ligand Drug Conjugates are provided having a DRS binding moiety attached via linking groups andor spacers to a therapeutic agent that are effective in treatment of various cancers. In some embodiments, the Ligand Drug Conjugate has the formula: L-(LU-D)p, where L is a Ligand unit, LU is a Linker unit and D is a Drug unit (or cytotoxic agent). The subscript p is an integer of from 1 to 20. Accordingly, the Ligand Drug Conjugates comprise a Ligand unit covalently linked to at least one Drug unit. The Drug units can be covalently linked directly or via a Linker unit (-LU-). The Ligand unit is a DR5 binding agent, such as an anti-DRS antibody.

03-19-2015

Patent applications by Kimihisa Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

Kiyoto Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20110235870

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes an imaging unit configured to perform imaging of one of the object person and a registrant, a first feature amount calculation unit configured to calculate a feature amount of a face of the registrant, a second feature amount calculation unit configured to calculate time series of feature amount of a lip of the registrant, a registration unit configured to register the time series of feature amount of the lip in a database to be associated with the feature amount of the face of the registrant, an identification unit configured to identify the face of the object person, a recognition unit configured to recognize speech content of the object person, and an authentication unit configured to perform personal authentication of the object person based on an identification result of the face and a recognition result of the speech content of the object person.

09-29-2011

20120134577

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a distinguishing unit which, by using an ensemble classifier, which includes a plurality of weak classifiers outputting weak hypotheses which indicates whether a predetermined subject is shown in an image in response to inputs of a plurality of features extracted from the image, and a plurality of features extracted from an input image, sequentially integrates the weak hypotheses output by the weak classifiers in regard to the plurality of features and distinguishes whether the predetermined subject is shown in the input image based on the integrated value. The weak classifier classifies each of the plurality of features to one of three or more sub-divisions based on threshold values, calculates sum divisions of the sub-divisions of the plurality of features as whole divisions into which the plurality of features is classified, and outputs, as the weak hypothesis, a reliability degree of the whole divisions.

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information gathering unit gathering information relating to a user, an information constructing unit constructing, from the information gathered by the information gathering unit, personal information on the user based on information disclosed by the user, and an information disclosure control unit dynamically changing a disclosed content of the personal information constructed by the information constructing unit, depending on another user.

10-10-2013

Patent applications by Kiyoto Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

Kozo Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20080296719

Infrared detector and manufacturing method thereof - An infrared detector comprises: first and second container members bonded to each other along an annular bonding portion to define a vacuum-sealed inner space, where the second container member has an infrared-transmissive property; an infrared detecting element disposed in the inner space; a first annular metallization layer formed on the bonding portion of the first container member; a second annular metallization layer formed on the bonding portion of the second container member; a solder metal for air-tightly bonding the first metallization layer and the second metallization layer; and a third metallization layer formed in a vicinity of one of the first and second metallization layers such that the third metallization layer overlaps the other of the first and second metallization layers at least partly.

12-04-2008

Kuniyoshi Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20100110315

Stage apparatus and control method for stage apparatus - Provided is a stage apparatus and a control method for the stage apparatus capable of increasing a degree of freedom in terms of movement of a display part, and diversifying stage presentation in which the display part is utilized. A plurality of display parts (

05-06-2010

20120313567

POWER-SUPPLY SYSTEM, POWER-SUPPLY DEVICE AND POWER-SUPPLY METHOD - A plurality of power-supply devices, in which power generated by solar energy is stored, are allowed to exchange power among themselves. Power generated by a solar panel connected to a first power-supply device is stored in a power storage section of the first power-supply device. Power supplied by the second power-supply device, which has a power storage section for storing power generated by the solar panel, is stored in the power storage section of first power-supply device. Power stored in the power storage section of the first power-supply device is supplied externally.

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus comprises a white balance setting unit that performs a setting of white balance correction processing on an image data, a white balance correction unit that performs white balance correction processing corresponding to the setting by the white balance setting unit on each of a plurality of RAW image data obtained in a photography operation, and an image synthesizing unit that generates synthesized image data by synthesizing a plurality of image data subjected to the white balance correction processing.

05-27-2010

20110090376

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Edge enhancement processing is implemented on an image data, and distortion correction processing is implemented on the image data subjected to the edge enhancement processing to correct a distortion by executing local enlargement processing or reduction processing corresponding to an optical distortion characteristic of a lens employed during an image pickup operation. At this time, the edge enhancement processing performed on the image data to be subjected to the distortion correction processing is modified in accordance with the local enlargement processing or reduction processing.

04-21-2011

20110304747

IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus includes a lens unit condensing light from a visual field region, an imaging unit including an imaging element which converts light condensed by the lens unit into an electric signal and continuously generating electronic image data based on the electric signal, a storage unit storing the image data generated by the imaging unit, a display unit displaying an image based on the image data generated by the imaging unit, an input unit receiving an input of a change instruction signal used to change a first capturing mode at a first vertical-to-horizontal ratio to a second capturing mode at a second vertical-to-horizontal ratio and an image trimming unit generating a captured image by trimming an image included in image data generated by the imaging unit at a vertical-to-horizontal ratio between the first and second vertical-to-horizontal ratios, when the change instruction signal is input during the first capturing mode.

12-15-2011

20120069233

PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD - A digital camera includes: a display section displaying a photographing image obtained by photographing a subject; a signal processing and control section reading out information related to the subject and information related to surroundings of the subject from a database on the basis of position information and compass direction information about the digital camera; and a display control section selecting the information related to the subject according to the lens condition and performing control so as to display the selected information on the display section by superimposing the selected information on the photographing image.

03-22-2012

20120120278

IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus including an imaging unit that captures images of a photographic subject and continuously generates electronic image data; a display unit that displays, at a predetermined display frame rate, images corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit; an image processing unit that either performs a first-type special effect operation that can be displayed at the predetermined display frame rate or performs a second-type special effect operation that can be displayed at a faster display frame rate than the predetermined display frame rate; an operation input unit that receives input of a change instruction signal that provides an instruction for changing a combination of image processing operations during a special effect operation performed by the image processing unit; and a control unit that instructs the image processing unit to switch the special effect operation from the first-type special effect operation to the second-type special effect operation.

05-17-2012

20120154642

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a noise reduction intensity control unit that controls a noise reduction intensity, which indicates a degree to which noise reduction is applied to image data, on the basis of a luminance variation ratio, which indicates a variation amount by which a luminance of the image data gradually varies, and a noise reduction unit that reduces a noise in the image data on the basis of the noise reduction intensity controlled by the noise reduction intensity control unit.

06-21-2012

20120287328

DRIVING CONTROL DEVICE AND OPERATION DEVICE - A driving control device according to the present invention includes: a fixed member; an operation member arranged to be manually rotatable with respect to the fixed member; a transducer arranged in one of the fixed member and the operation member and arranged to come into contact with an opposed surface of the other of the fixed member and the operation member; a position detecting section for detecting a position of the operation member with respect to the fixed member; and an operation force amount control section for controlling driving of the transducer to change contact friction force generated when the transducer contacts with the fixed member or the operation member. The operation force amount control section controls the transducer such that the contact friction force applied to the operation member when the operation member is manually rotated with respect to the fixed member changes to a sense of click.

11-15-2012

20120307103

IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit that generates electronic image data; a display unit that displays an image; an image processor that produces a visual effect on the image data in combination with a plurality of image processes to generate processed image data; a release input unit that accepts an input of a release signal of instructing the imaging apparatus to execute shooting; an image process controller that executes the plural kinds of special effect processes on one piece of image data generated after the acceptance of the input of the release signal and to generate plural pieces of processed image data; and a display controller that controls the display unit to display, for a predetermined time, one of an image corresponding to the piece of image data and at least one processed image corresponding to at least a part of the plural pieces of processed image data.

12-06-2012

20120307112

IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus including a shooting unit consecutively generating electronic image data by imaging a subject and photoelectrically converting the imaged subject; a display unit displaying images corresponding to the image data in a generation sequence; an image processing unit generating processed image data by performing special effect processing of generating a visual effect by combining plural image processing operations with respect to the image data; an image processing controller generating plural processed image data by allowing the image processing unit to perform plural special effect processing operations with respect to the image data when there are plural special effect processing operations to be performed by the image processing unit; and a display controller collectively displaying one or more processed images corresponding to at least some of the processed image data generated by the image processing unit and an image corresponding to the image data on the display unit.

12-06-2012

20130230232

Three-Dimensional Image Processing Device, And Three-Dimensional Image Processing Method - A three-dimensional image processing device for visually applying a special effect by subjecting raw data that has been acquired by imaging to image processing, and creating image data capable of being viewed stereoscopically. The device comprises a tone conversion section for tone converting the raw data in accordance with the special effect, a three-dimensional image data processing section for carrying out at least one of clipping image data that has been tone converted by the tone conversion section as image data to be viewed stereoscopically, or carrying out geometric processing, to create three-dimensional image data, and a special effect image processing section for subjecting the three-dimensional image data to special image processing to apply a special effect that is analogous to an image that has been formed optically or formed by photographic film or by development and printing processing, and creating a three-dimensional special-effect image.

09-05-2013

20130293733

IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGING METHOD - An image processing unit performs image processing with respect to image data. A still image information storage unit stores still image data in accordance with an instruction from a still image shooting instruction unit. A moving image recording unit records moving image data in accordance with an instruction from a moving image shooting instruction unit. The timing information acquisition unit acquires timing information. The image processing unit performs special effect image processing of combining the still image data to image data associated with the timing information in the pieces of image data constituting the moving image data.

11-07-2013

20140036129

PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD - A digital camera includes: a display section displaying a photographing image obtained by photographing a subject; a signal processing and control section reading out information related to the subject and information related to surroundings of the subject from a database on the basis of position information and compass direction information about the digital camera; and a display control section selecting the information related to the subject according to the lens condition and performing control so as to display the selected information on the display section by superimposing the selected information on the photographing image.

02-06-2014

20140043503

IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus including an imaging unit that captures images of a photographic subject and continuously generates electronic image data; a display unit that displays, at a predetermined display frame rate, images corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit; an image processing unit that either performs a first-type special effect operation that can be displayed at the predetermined display frame rate or performs a second-type special effect operation that can be displayed at a faster display frame rate than the predetermined display frame rate; an operation input unit that receives input of a change instruction signal that provides an instruction for changing a combination of image processing operations during a special effect operation performed by the image processing unit; and a control unit that instructs the image processing unit to switch the special effect operation from the first-type special effect operation to the second-type special effect operation.

02-13-2014

20140085508

IMAGE EDITING DEVICE AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - An image editing device of the present invention, for editing a combined photographic image formed by combining a plurality of images, comprises a first image processing section for carrying out first image processing on the image and creating a first image, a second image processing section for carrying out second image processing on the first image to create a second image, a combined photograph processing section for creating a combined photograph by combining the second image in accordance combining position of the combined photograph, and a control section for, after the first image processing has been carried out, creating a combined photograph by combining the second image that has been subjected to the second image processing in accordance with combining position of the combined photograph by the combined photograph processing section, and storing the combined photograph and the first image as a single image file.

03-27-2014

20140085509

IMAGE EDITING DEVICE AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - An image editing device, for editing a combined photographic image formed by combining a plurality of images with a predetermined background image, comprises a combined photograph processing section for creating a combined photograph by combining a plurality of images with the background image in accordance with combining position of the combined photograph, an image compression section for dividing the combined photograph into a number of blocks of a specified number of pixels, and subjecting an image to lossy compression, a background portion image selection section for dividing the background image into the blocks, and selecting a plurality of blocks that include at least the combining position as a background portion image, and a storage section for storing an image that has been compressed by the image compression section, and the background portion image that has been selected by the background portion image selection section, as a single image file.

03-27-2014

20140085510

IMAGE EDITING DEVICE AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - An image editing device of the present invention, for editing a combined photographic image formed by combining a plurality of images, comprises a combined photograph editing section for carrying out editing of the combined photograph using the combined photographic image and the images that have been expanded, an image quality control parameter calculating section, for calculating image quality control parameters for combined photograph data that has been edited by the combined photograph editing section, in accordance with first image quality control parameters for when creating the combined photograph, and second image quality control parameter for when creating the compressed image, wherein, in the case where a combined photograph that has been edited by the combined photograph editing section is subjected to image compression, the image quality control parameters that have been calculated by the image quality control parameter calculating section are used.

03-27-2014

20140085511

IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device lays out a plurality of images to generate image data of a combined image, and includes: a feature value calculation unit which calculates from an image configuring the combined image a feature value indicating a feature of the image; an image correction unit which corrects the image whose feature value is calculated so that the feature value calculated by the feature value calculation unit approaches a target feature value; and a combined image generation unit which generates image data of the combined image by combining image data of the plurality of images including the image corrected by the image correction unit.

03-27-2014

20140086506

IMAGE EDITING DEVICE AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - An image editing device of the present invention replaces part of a first image that has been subjected to lossy compression with a second image, and comprises a image quality adjustment section for carrying out image quality conversion processing that is the same as image quality variation arising due to the lossy compression, and an editing section for carrying out editing processing using the second image that has been adjusted by the image quality adjustment section.

03-27-2014

20140111674

IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus for the present invention comprises an image sensor which repeatedly reads out image data, an OB calculating unit which calculates a representative value of OB output levels read from the image sensor; and a memory which stores the representative value of OB pixel output levels calculated by the OB calculating unit in a manner of dividing into a part for subtraction (a integer part) and a part for carrying-over (a decimal part); and an image synthesizing unit which sequentially adds the image data read from an effective pixel region in the image sensor and generates an added image, wherein the above-described image synthesizing unit subtracts the part for subtraction of the representative value of OB pixel output levels stored in the memory (OB subtraction part) from either the generated added image, or the image read from the effective pixel region, and, when a next OB value for addition after second addition is calculated, the OB calculating unit adds the carrying-over (decimal) part to the representative value of OB output levels stored in the memory for the representative value of OB output levels calculated using the image data read from the OB pixel regions.

04-24-2014

20140176775

IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging device, capable of shooting a combined photograph that is a single image made up of a plurality of images, and capable of live view display, comprises a first display section, a second display section, an imaging section for converting a subject image to image data, an image processing section for subjecting the image data to image processing, and a combined photograph processing section, for combining a plurality of image data subjected to image processing by the image processing section to create a single image, wherein, when a live view image is to be displayed on the first display section an image that has been subjected to processing by the combined photograph processing section is displayed, while when a live view image is to be displayed on the second display section an image that has been subjected to image processing by the image processing section is displayed.

06-26-2014

20140320692

IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a random seed generating unit, a pseudo-random number generating unit, and a special image processing unit. The imaging unit photographs a subject to obtain image data. The random seed generating unit generates a random seed to decide a pseudo-random number sequence. The pseudo-random number generating unit generates a pseudo-random number in accordance with the generated random seed. The special image processing unit performs special image processing to apply a special effect to the image data based on the generated pseudo-random number. The random seed is decided during photography.

10-30-2014

20140333798

IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD - To provide an image pickup apparatus which enables acquisition, by a simple configuration, of a natural image of a dark place or the like at the time of image pickup in a dark environment by eliminating an influence from the surrounding environmental light, an image pickup apparatus of the invention includes an image pickup section for picking up an image of an object and acquiring an image signal, an accumulation section for sequentially accumulating outputs from the image pickup section, a display section for visibly displaying an accumulated image signal of the accumulation section, a position identification section for identifying a position specified on an image displayed on the display section; and a correction section for performing an image correction process on the accumulated image signal of the accumulation section according to an identification result of the position identification section.

11-13-2014

20140362258

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a special image processing unit. The special image processing unit includes an image resize unit that performs a resize process of resizing an image size of at least a partial area of an image area of image data by using one position in at least the partial area as a center, and an image composition unit that performs a composition process of compositing the image data and image data obtained through the resize process such that the respective one positions coincide with each other.

12-11-2014

20150077603

IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH IMAGE FILE IS RECORDED, RECORDING METHOD, IMAGE PLAYBACK METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging device includes: an imaging unit having an imaging element formed of a plurality of pixels, and configured to perform imaging under a first exposure condition to generate first image data and to perform imaging under a second exposure condition different from the first exposure condition to generate second image data; an image composition unit configured to generate composite image data with an expanded dynamic range based on the first image data and the second image data; and an image file generation unit configured to generate an image file in which the first image data, the second image data, the composite image data, and position information on positions of pixels mutually replaced in a first image corresponding to the first image data and a second image corresponding to the second image data when the image composition unit generates the composite image data, are recorded in association with one another.

03-19-2015

Patent applications by Manabu Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

Masahide Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20120009096

APPARATUS FOR SAFELY GENERATING HYDROGEN GAS THROUGH THE REACTION OF METALLIC SODIUM WITH WATER - This is an apparatus invented to generate hydrogen gas safely using the reaction of metallic sodium and water. Metallic sodium is cut into thin slices using a guillotine-type cutter and fed into the feed opening in the upper part of a pipe inserted in the water layer in a sealed water tank. Dropping in the metallic sodium causes the metallic sodium to settle and through contact with the water generate hydrogen gas. The lower end of the feed pipe is adjoined with adhesive to an opening in the water ejection pipe of the water jet pump in such a manner that the pipe and pump form one unit. The metallic sodium released in the tank is immediately forced from the tap water jet pump into the water layer, reacts with the water, and generates the hydrogen gas. The hydrogen gas is kept in a storage tank. The storage tank is equipped with a sensor that gauges the pressure and when the pressure reaches a certain point within the tank it stops the action of the cutter and the supply of metallic sodium is suspended.

01-12-2012

Masaki Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20110244803

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND WIRELESS DEVICE - A wireless communications system and a wireless device are provided which can ensure a satisfactory line quality even when the characteristics of a transmission path are being steeply deteriorated. The wireless device measures a state indicating the characteristics of a transmission path, determines whether or not switching of a modulation scheme is required based on the state, and if the switching of the modulation scheme is required, determines a modulation scheme after the switching in accordance with the state and a value of a change amount of the state, switches a demodulation scheme to one corresponding to the modulation scheme after the switching, and adds information indicating the modulation scheme after the switching to a frame to be transmitted to a wireless device which is a communication partner. Additionally, the wireless device extracts the information indicating the modulation scheme after the switching from a frame which is received from the wireless device which is the communication partner, and switches a modulation scheme to the modulation scheme after the switching in accordance with the extracted information.

10-06-2011

20120252376

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication device avoids unnecessary reduction of transmission capacity of a data signal to ensure the reliability of a pilot signal. A determination unit determines a reception modulation method for a received data signal according to the state of the transmission line. A transmission circuit generates a first pilot signal indicating the reception modulation method determined by the determination unit and, after adding an error correction code, modulates and transmits the first pilot signal. A reception unit receives a second pilot signal indicating a transmission modulation method that is the method for modulating a transmitted data signal. A switching unit, in accordance with the transmission modulation method indicated by the second pilot signal received by the reception unit, switches at least one of the modulation method of the first pilot signal transmitted by the transmission circuit and the redundancy of the error correction code of the first pilot signal.

10-04-2012

20140206291

CROSS-POLAR INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS STATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless station device determines whether a carrier to noise ratio of a vertical polarization wave is lower than a first threshold value, determines that a present modulation method for the vertical polarization wave is to be changed to another modulation method having a small multilevel number when the carrier to noise ratio of the vertical polarization wave is lower than the first threshold value, and transmits modulation method information to the facing wireless station device. Further, the facing wireless station device transmits a radio signal to the wireless station device using the modulation method indicated by the received modulation method information for the vertical polarization wave.

Masaru Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090025291

HYDROGEN GENERATOR AND HYDROGENATION APPARATUS - The efficiency of dehydrogenation and that of hydrogenation are improved. A hydrogen generator for generating hydrogen by dehydrogenation of organic hydrides in the presence of a catalyst is characterized by comprising a reactor vessel (

01-29-2009

20090076316

PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF AROMATIC HYDROCARBON - A process for producing an aromatic hydrocarbon, comprises heating the hydrocarbon in the presence of a catalyst carrying a molybdenum compound or a rhenium compound on a metallosilicate carrier modified with a silicon compound, a sodium compound or a calcium compound. The silicon compound is a silane compound having a basic group selected from amino, alkylamino and pyridyl groups and an organic group of a size equal to or greater than the pore size of the metallosilicate and selected from trialkoxy and triphenyl groups and the sodium compound or the calcium compound is a compound having an organic group of a size equal to or greater than the pore size of the metallosilicate and selected from crown ether, hexafluoropentanedione and acetylacetonate. The silane compound, the sodium compound or the calcium compound is modified so as to make an oxide thereof by impregnating the metallosilicate carrier with it and subsequently heat-treating it in an oxygen-containing atmosphere.

03-19-2009

20110265738

WIRE CATALYST FOR HYDROGENATION/DEHYDROGENATION REACTION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A wire catalyst for hydrogenation reaction and/or dehydrogenation reaction comprises a metallic core and an oxide surface layer covering at least part of the surface thereof. The metallic core is electrically conductive so that the metallic core itself can generate heat by directly passing an electric current therethrough or electromagnetic induction. The oxide surface layer is made of an oxide of a metallic element constituting the metallic core. The oxide surface layer is provided with a porous structure having pores opening at the surface of the oxide surface layer. The catalytic material is supported in the pores of the oxide surface layer. When a shaped wire catalyst is manufactured, the shaping into a specific shape is made before the oxide surface layer having the porous structure is formed and the catalytic material is supported thereon.

11-03-2011

20120071697

Method for Producing Ethanol - A method for producing ethanol by which ethanol can be synthesized from less fermentable biomass materials such as plant-derived materials and rice straws and industrial waste biomass materials such as wooden building materials and pulp and which can therefore broaden the range of raw materials for the production of ethanol. Specifically, a method for producing ethanol including reacting a raw material gas obtained by a thermochemical gasification reaction of biomass in the presence of a catalyst containing rhodium, at least one transition metal, and at least one element selected from lithium, magnesium and zinc.

WIRE CATALYST FOR HYDROGENATION/DEHYDROGENATION REACTION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A wire catalyst for hydrogenation reaction and/or dehydrogenation reaction comprises a metallic core and an oxide surface layer covering at least part of the surface thereof. The metallic core is electrically conductive so that the metallic core itself can generate heat by directly passing an electric current therethrough or electromagnetic induction. The oxide surface layer is made of an oxide of a metallic element constituting the metallic core. The oxide surface layer is provided with a porous structure having pores opening at the surface of the oxide surface layer. The catalytic material is supported in the pores of the oxide surface layer. When a shaped wire catalyst is manufactured, the shaping into a specific shape is made before the oxide surface layer having the porous structure is formed and the catalytic material is supported thereon.

07-10-2014

Patent applications by Masaru Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

Masayoshi Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090127068

ELECTRONIC DEVICE TESTING APPARATUS - An electronic device testing apparatus for conveying electronic devices to be tested to sockets of a contact portion and bringing the electronic devices to be tested electrically contact with the sockets to conduct a test of electric characteristics of the electronic devices to be tested, comprising an image pickup portion that takes an image of the sockets; a memory portion that stores reference image data of the sockets in a state of not being attached with any electronic devices to be tested obtained by taking images by the image pickup portion; and a mislay determination portion that obtains check image data of the sockets from the image pickup portion, reads the reference image data from the memory portion, compares the check image data with the reference image data and determines whether any of the electronic devices to be tested remain on the sockets.

05-21-2009

20090136118

Electronic Device Handling Apparatus - An electronic device handling apparatus for conducting a test of electric characteristics of electronic devices by conveying the electronic devices to sockets of a contact portion and bringing them electrically connected to the sockets: wherein standard image data as image data of sockets to be standard is stored in advance, and inspection image data as image data of sockets as inspection objects is obtained by taking an image by the image pickup device, standard image data is read from a memory device and a defect of a socket as inspection objects is detected by comparing the standard image data with the inspection image data.

05-28-2009

20100239155

ABNORMALITY DETECTING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ABNORMALITY AT INTERFACE PORTION OF CONTACT ARM - An abnormality detecting apparatus includes an imaging device for obtaining image data of a TIM, a failure detecting section for detecting appearance failures of the TIM on the basis of the image data of the TIM obtained by the imaging device, and a determining device for determining whether an abnormality occurs at the TIM on the basis of a detection result by the failure detecting section.

09-23-2010

20120211700

PROCESS FOR PRODUCING BETA-SIALON FLUORESCENT MATERIAL - Provided is a production method of a β-type sialon fluorescent substance, where luminescence intensity can be improved without adding a metal element other than elements composing a β-type sialon fluorescent substance. Namely, in a production method of a fluorescent substance containing an optically-active element as the luminescence center in a crystal of nitride or acid nitride, a β-type sialon fluorescent substance is produced by a burning process for heat-treating a mixture including metal compound powder and an optically-active element compound; a high-temperature annealing process for heat-treating the burned product after cooling under a nitrogen atmosphere; a rare-gas annealing process for heat-treating the high-temperature annealed product under a rare gas atmosphere; and a process for treating the rare-gas treated product with an acid.

Michinori Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090057673

Pixel structure of solid-state image sensor - To eliminate uneven distribution of electrons caused by variation in threshold voltages of gates for distributing electrons and to have sensitivity in a long wavelength in a pixel structure of a solid-state image sensor of a charge sorting method, the structure has: a photodiode that generates electrons by photoelectric conversion; a plurality of charge-storage sections that store electrons generated in the photodiode; and a gate structure that is arranged between the photodiode and the charge-storage sections and controls transfer of electrons generated in the photodiode to the plurality of charge-storage sections, in which the gate structure is made up of plural stages of gates, and the plural stages of gates at least have: a front stage gate that is arranged adjacent to the photodiode and controls readout of electrons generated in the photodiode; and a rear stage gate that is arranged adjacent to the plurality of charge-storage sections on the rear stage of the front stage gate and performs control of distributing electrons read out by readout control of the front stage gate to the plurality of charge-storage sections.

03-05-2009

20090278174

PIXEL STRUCTURE OF SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR - A pixel structure of a solid-state image sensor in which residual electrons in a photodiode is reduced and which has a first-stage gate that is arranged adjacent to the photodiode and controls read-out of electrons generated in the photodiode, a second-stage gate that is adjacent to the first-stage gate on the rear stage of the gate at a predetermined gap and controls movement of electrons read out by the readout control of the first-stage gate to the plurality of the charge-storage sections, and a plurality of third-stage gates that are adjacent to the second-stage gate on the rear stage of the gate at a predetermined gap, severally arranged corresponding to the plurality of the charge-storage sections, and perform control of distributing the electrons moved by the movement control of the second-stage gate severally to the plurality of the charge-storage sections, and gradient on which electrons are moved in the first-stage gate direction is formed on the potential of the photodiode.

11-12-2009

Mikito Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090093314

Game program and game apparatus - A game apparatus can executes a plurality of game processing in parallel. The CPU of the game apparatus executes first game processing out of the plurality of game processing on the basis of first operation data to display a result at a first area, executes second game processing as another one on the basis of second operation data to display a result at a second area, and exerts an influence on the basis of the execution result of the first game processing on the second area on which the execution result of the second game processing is displayed. Here, one of the first operation data and the second operation data may be real-time operation data, and the other one may be replay operation data.

04-09-2009

Mikiya Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20110217061

Image forming apparatus, image forming system, fixing control method, and computer program product - An image forming apparatus includes: a PDL analyzing unit that analyzes print data and obtains a drawing condition; a drawing unit that uses a type of dither selected from types of dither, prepared and associated with drawing conditions, according to the drawing condition analyzed, and generates output image data; an image forming unit; a fixing unit that fixes an image formed on a recording sheet by heating the image to a fixing temperature; a fixing control unit that controls the fixing temperature to a target value; and a database in which each of the types of dither is associated with the target value of fixing temperature for power saving. The fixing control unit obtains from the database the target value of fixing temperature corresponding to the type of dither used in the drawing unit and carries out control to conduct fixing at the target value thus obtained.

Nobuhiko Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

OPTICAL SHEET AND DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided an optical sheet and a display device which hardly cause a change in color depending on the observation angle of an image.

09-08-2011

Patent applications by Nobuhiko Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

Noriyoshi Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090118602

Disease Diagnosis Support System - There is provided a system for supporting the assessment as to which disease group the subject to be examined falls in or what position in the whole disease group the subject is in. This support system comprises the data storage part which stores feature values of optical bio-measurement data of many subjects including patients in multiple disease groups, the analysis part which extracts plural kinds of feature values from the optical bio-measurement data and the display part which displays the results of analysis in the analysis part associated with the dictionary data, wherein the display part produces a scatter diagram on which features values of the dictionary data are plotted, with one of the two feature values being plotted along the axis of abscissa and the other along the axis of ordinate, and displays the positions of the subject to be assessed on the scatter diagram superimposed on the scatter diagram. With this scatter diagram, the relationship between the features of the subject and the feature of the disease group can be known in one glance.

05-07-2009

20110082677

STIMULATING TASK PRESENTATION DEVICE AND STIMULATING TASK PRESENTATION METHOD FOR LIVING BODY OPTICAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A load of a stimulating task on an examinee with a resting task being unstable is excluded, and an accurate answer of an examinee to presentation of a stimulating task is enabled. A stimulating task presentation device in a living body optical measurement device includes a stimulation presenting unit configured to present a stimulation to an examinee, a brain function measurement device for measuring a brain function of the examinee in parallel to presentation of the stimulation, and a stimulation presentation controller configured to control the stimulation presented by the stimulation presenting unit, and the stimulation presentation controller has a function of setting a resting task and a stimulating task to be presented to the examinee, a function of detecting an answer of the examinee to the resting task and the stimulating task, and a task presentation control function of determining the degree of stability on the basis of the detection result when the resting task is presented, and controlling presentation of the resting task or the stimulating task on the basis of the degree of stability.

04-07-2011

Ryoichi Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20100187907

SECONDARY BATTERY CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD - To provide a secondary battery controlling apparatus and a controlling method that can keep a storage amount of a secondary battery used for supply and demand control of a power system not close to 100% or 0%. The present invention is a power supply and demand controlling apparatus of a small-scaled power system

Ryuzo Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

Shigeru Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20130034341

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a storage part for storing criteria information of a plurality of destinations, and a display control part for performing control to display transmission capability information indicating whether it is possible to transmit, to each of the destinations, a selected motion picture file in a predetermined range selected from a motion picture file by a user, the transmission capability information being derived based on information about the selected motion picture file and the criteria information.

02-07-2013

20130050551

IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image sensor in which one unit structure includes a plurality of photo-electric conversion units, a floating diffusion, a plurality of transfer transistors which are arranged in correspondence with the plurality of photo-electric conversion units so as to transfer charges respectively converted by the plurality of photo-electric conversion units to the floating diffusion, a source-follower amplifier which outputs a voltage signal according to a charge amount of the floating diffusion, and a reset transistor which resets the plurality of photo-electric conversion units and the floating diffusion, and a plurality of unit structures are two-dimensionally arranged in a row direction and a column direction, the image sensor comprising a control unit which divides the plurality of unit structures into a plurality of groups, and controls the transfer transistors for each divided group.

02-28-2013

20140016001

IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image-pickup apparatus includes an exposure condition calculator configured to calculate an exposure condition of an image sensor determined by accumulation time of the image sensor, an amplification amount and an aperture value of an image signal, and an image generator configured to generate a high dynamic range image. When the plurality of exposure conditions have equal exposure differences, the exposure condition calculator changes the accumulation time so as to follow a change of the object brightness from a first value to a second value, and the exposure condition calculator calculates the plurality of exposure conditions by fixing the accumulation time and by changing the amplification amount so as to follow a change of the object brightness from a third value smaller than the first value to a fourth value smaller than the second value.

01-16-2014

20140232929

IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided an image capturing apparatus. An image capturing control unit performs image capturing using a first pixel group of an image capturing unit during a first exposure time to obtain a high-exposure image. It also performs image capturing using a second pixel group of the image capturing unit during a second exposure time which is shorter than the first exposure time to obtain a first low-exposure image. It also performs image capturing using the second pixel group during a third exposure time which is shorter than the first exposure time to obtain a second low-exposure image. The second and third exposure times at least partially overlapping the first exposure time. A detection unit compares the first low-exposure image with the second low-exposure image to detect a motion of the subject.

08-21-2014

Shoji Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090040574

IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image sensor using three-color, e.g., R, G, and B light-emitting elements assures a period in which all the three colors are turned on and periods in each of which one light-emitting element is turned off during a scan period per pixel, and integrates and measures amounts of light of the respective periods. An amount of light based on the OFF light-emitting element is calculated based on a difference between the amounts of light during the full light-ON period and each light-OFF period to define an amount of light of the light-emitting element, and light intensity information corresponding to each light-emitting element is obtained based on a total amount of light during the entire scan period per pixel, and the amount of light of each light-emitting element.

02-12-2009

Shunji Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20100043553

ACCELERATION SENSOR CHIP PACKAGE - An acceleration sensor chip package includes an acceleration sensor chip; a sensor control chip; a re-wiring layer; an outer terminal; a sealing portion; and a substrate. The acceleration sensor chip includes a frame portion; a movable structure; a detection element; and an electrode pad electrically. The re-wiring layer has a wiring portion connected to the electrode pad. The electrode pad is electrically connected to a conductive bump. The sensor control chip has a sensor control electrode pad electrically connected to the conductive bump. The outer terminal is connected to the wiring portion and disposed in the outer region. The sealing portion seals the sensor control chip, the electrode pad, and the re-wiring layer, so that the movable structure is movable. The substrate is attached to the acceleration sensor chip to seal an opening portion.

Takanori Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20120248928

ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE LAMINATED CORE - In a rotary electric machine laminated core, a rotating shaft portion is disposed closer to an outer circumferential surface than an inner circumferential surface of a back yoke portion. A notch portion is disposed on at least one of first and second end portions of the back yoke portion so as to form a gap between a vicinity of the rotating shaft portion of a projecting portion and a recess portion when core segments are arranged in an annular shape or a circular arc shape. The first end portion and the second end portion of the back yoke portion are configured such that a predetermined gap that connects from the outer circumferential side to the inner circumferential side is formed between adjacent projecting portions and recess portions when the core segments are expanded rectilinearly such that magnetic pole tooth portions are parallel to each other.

10-04-2012

Takao Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20120015300

PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION - Disclosed is a photosensitive resin composition which has excellent transparency, heat resistance, thermal discoloration resistance, adhesion to a substrate and electrical characteristics, while exhibiting good developability and storage stability. Specifically disclosed is a photosensitive resin composition which contains the following components (A), (B) and (C). (A) a copolymer which contains (al) hydroxyphenyl (meth)acrylate and (a2) an unsaturated epoxy compound as copolymerization components (B) a novolac resin which contains one or more phenols selected from among dimethylphenol, trimethylphenol, methylpropylphenol, dipropylphenol, butylphenol, methylbutylphenol, dibutylphenol, and 4,4′-dihydroxy-2,2′-diphenylpropane (C) a quinonediazide group-containing compound

01-19-2012

Tomohiro Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090007090

SOFTWARE UPDATING METHOD AND PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE - A software updating method for updating software stored as compressed code in a nonvolatile memory provided in a portable terminal on the basis of differential data via wireless communication includes the steps of providing a file system area having a fault-tolerant property; decompressing, at the execution of software updating, the compressed code of the software and loading the decompressed code into a random-access memory; updating the software in the random-access memory on the basis of the differential data; compressing the updated software; and storing a backup of a compressed updated code sequence corresponding to a compressed updated portion of the compressed updated software in the file system area and then writing the compressed updated code sequence corresponding to the compressed updated portion of the compressed updated software back to the nonvolatile memory.

01-01-2009

20100042985

PORTABLE TERMINAL, PORTABLE TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL CONTROL PROGRAM - A portable terminal includes: a storage unit for storing at least a first program and software converting data to convert the first program into a second program; a storage control unit to perform reading and writing of the program and data as to the storage unit; a software converting processing unit to execute processing that converts the first program into the second program, using the first program and software converting data read by the storage control unit from the storage unit; and a terminal starting control unit to execute at the time of terminal startup one or the other of starting up the first program, and starting up the converting processing from the first program to the second program by the program converting processing unit and the second program that has been converted.

02-18-2010

20120059979

MEMORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD - A terminal apparatus including a non-volatile memory for which writing is performed in units of blocks; and a control unit configured to perform a first method of managing bad blocks in the non-volatile memory with respect to blocks corresponding to an information management table in a file system of the non-volatile memory, and to perform a second method of managing bad blocks in the non-volatile memory with respect to blocks corresponding to user data in the file system.

03-08-2012

20130332918

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TIME NOTIFICATION FOR UPDATING SOFTWARE - A terminal device may include: a communication interface to receive, from a server via a network, a file for updating software in a memory device coupled with the terminal device, and a software update table that includes data regarding one or more performance values and one or more time values indicative of one or more lengths of time taken to update the software using the file; a processor to obtain data regarding a performance value of the memory device, select, from the software update table, one of the one or more performance values based on the performance value of the memory device, and obtain, from the software update table, a time value associated with the selected performance value; and an output device to provide an output corresponding to the obtained time value. Each performance value is associated with one of the one or more time values, respectively.

12-12-2013

Patent applications by Tomohiro Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

Toru Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090071960

PACKAGE - In the invention, to solve the problem of easily opening a package to be opened by peeling a lid member off from a container, the package

03-19-2009

20100158416

PACKAGING BAG WITH FASTENER - It is aimed to smoothly perform engagement and disengagement of a fastener of a packaging bag and easily take out an inner content by a desired amount. For these purposes, in a packaging bag

Toshio Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20130336439

NEUTRON FLUX DETECTOR GUIDING APPARATUS - In a neutron flux detector guiding apparatus, a cylindrical support column is erected on an upper core support plate of a nuclear reactor container main body, a plurality of guide thimble guiding tubes is provided inside the upper core support column between the upper core support plate and an upper core plate, a plurality of guide thimbles is extended from the support column into the guide thimble guiding tubes, the plurality of guide thimbles is supported by a support plate supported at one end part by the support column and erected at the other end part by a support leg above the upper core support plate, and an upper end part of the support plate is inclined downward from the support column side toward the support leg side, thereby realizing simplification of a structure.

12-19-2013

Yasuaki Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090120144

STEERING WHEEL ADAPTER - A steering wheel adapter comprises a base having an opening, a plate with a plug formed, and a ring capable of sliding and rotating along the outer face of the base. In the steering wheel adapter, a guide hole penetrating the side face of the base from the outer face into the opening is disposed, a locking member capable of protruding into the opening is provided in the guide hole, and a cam face is provided facing the guide hole on the inner face of the ring. When the ring is slid and rotated in a state where the plate is mounted on the base to insert the plug into the opening, the cam face pushes and protrudes the locking member into the opening, and the locking member is pressed to contact the outer surface of the plug. Consequently, both easy attachment/detachment and prevention of rattle can be achieved.

05-14-2009

Patent applications by Yasuaki Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

Yasushi Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20130289221

METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALIPHATIC POLYESTER HAVING INCREASED MOLECULAR WEIGHT - The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for continuously and effectively producing an aliphatic polyester having an increased molecular weight by preventing evaporation of a diisocyanate when blending the diisocyanate with an aliphatic polyester prepolymer in a molten state at a temperature not lower than the melting point thereof so that the diisocyanate and the aliphatic polyester prepolymer are uniformly blended.

10-31-2013

20140051823

METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALIPHATIC POLYESTER HAVING INCREASED MOLECULAR WEIGHT - The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for continuously and effectively producing an aliphatic polyester having an increased molecular weight which prevents evaporation of diisocyanate at the step of mixing the diisocyanate with the aliphatic polyester prepolymer in a molten state at a temperature not lower than the melting point of the prepolymer and enables uniform mixing of the diisocyanate with the aliphatic polyester prepolymer. In order to solve this problem, the present invention provides a method for producing an aliphatic polyester having an increased molecular weight comprising the steps of:

BIODEGRADABLE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND BIODEGRADABLE FILM - There are disclosed a biodegradable resin composition including a starch (a1), a condensation polymer (a2) of an aliphatic diol and an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, a non-crystalline polylactic acid-based polymer (b) and an aliphatic aromatic polyester (c), a mass ratio (a1/a2) being from 20/80 to 50/50, a mass ratio of a composition (A) comprising the components other than the components (b) and (c) to the component (b) ((A)/(b)) being from 95/5 to 50/50, and a mass ratio {(A)+(b)}/(c) being from 98/2 to 85/15, and a biodegradable film using the biodegradable resin composition.

10-09-2014

20140336310

BIODEGRADABLE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND BIODEGRADABLE FILM - There are disclosed a biodegradable resin composition including a starch (a1), a biodegradable resin (a2) other than a polylactic acid-based polymer and a non-crystalline polylactic acid-based polymer (b), a mass ratio of the starch (a1) to the biodegradable resin (a2) other than a polylactic acid-based polymer (a1/a2) being from 20/80 to 50/50, and a mass ratio of a sum of the components other than the polymer (b) to the polymer (b) (sum of components other than polymer (b)/polymer (b)) being from 95/5 to 50/50, and a biodegradable film using the biodegradable resin composition.

Yoshinori Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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Description

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20100121894

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a communicating section that executes communication with a server, a local storage section that stores subsequent data acquired from the server, and a data processing section that executes an acquisition process of the subsequent data, and a data playback process using data stored on a disc and the subsequent data stored on the local storage section. The data processing section builds a virtual file system for reading data stored on the disc and the local storage section, at the time of the data playback process, and performs the acquisition process of the subsequent data by transmitting a package ID to the server at the time of the acquisition process of the subsequent data, the package ID being information specifying a package corresponding to a file set necessary for building or updating the virtual file system.

05-13-2010

Yuh-Ichiro Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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Description

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20080269218

Novel Hsp90 Inhibitor - Disclosed is a triazole derivative represented by the general formula (1) below or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. Also disclosed are a prodrug of such a triazole derivative and an HSP90 inhibitor containing any one of them as an active constituent. (1) (In the formula, X represents a halogen atom, an optionally substituted alkyl group, an optionally substituted alkenyl group or the like; Y represents a mercapto group, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted sulfonyl group, an optionally substituted amino group or the like; and R represents an optionally substituted aryl or amino group or the like.)

10-30-2008

Yuichi Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20090016711

OPERATING DEVICE - An operating device is provided having a first button, a second button, and a regulating member. The first button has a tubular hole having a bottom, and is able to be pressed in the direction from the opening edge of said tubular hole to the bottom. The second button freely fits the inside surface of said tubular hole on the outside surface of the second button. The regulating member engages the edge of the first button and regulates the movement of the first button in the pressing direction. The first button is swingable on its edge.

01-15-2009

20090020402

OPERATING DEVICE - An operating device is provided having a supporting member, a button, an elastic member, and a bearing member. The supporting member has an opening which passes through the thickness direction of the supporting member. The button has a shaft and an engaging portion. The shaft is arranged such that the axial direction of the shaft is parallel to the thickness direction of the supporting member. The engaging portion projects parallel to the axial direction of the shaft. The elastic member is set onto the supporting member so as to cover the opening, and has a projecting portion which engages the end of the shaft. The bearing member is provided between the supporting member and the elastic member, which is provided around the opening and is located nearer to the shaft than the engaging portion in the direction orthogonal to the projecting direction of the shaft. The shaft may press the elastic member so that the elastic member is deformed so as to move along the thickness direction of the supporting member in the opening.

NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERIES AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - Provided are negative electrode for lithium ion secondary batteries, which is capable of realizing a lithium ion secondary battery having characteristics such as stable output and stable capacity, and a lithium ion secondary battery having characteristics such as stable output and stable capacity. The negative electrode for lithium ion secondary batteries includes a laminated body of a negative electrode material layer that is mainly constituted by a carbonaceous material, and a negative electrode current collector. When the negative electrode material layer is in a dry state, a limit radius of curvature of a negative electrode is 15 mm or less. Content of the hard carbon in the carbonaceous material is preferably 5% by weight to 45% by weight.

Yujiro Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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20130346584

CONTROL METHOD FOR VIRTUAL COMPUTER, AND VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM - A control method for a virtual computer comprising a plurality of physical computers, a management server for managing the plurality of physical computers, and at least one virtual computer, which is provided by a virtualizing part executed on each of the plurality of physical computers, the management server controlling the at least one virtual computer and the virtualization part, the control method comprising: detecting, by the management server, a relationship between the virtualization part and the virtual computer operating on the plurality of physical computers; detecting, by the management server, an operation state of the virtual computer; and one of restraining and permitting, by the management server, when the management server issues a command for changing a state to one of the virtualization part and the virtual computer, issuance of the command based on an operation state of the virtual computer in a coupling relationship with the virtualization part.

12-26-2013

20140032753

COMPUTER SYSTEM AND NODE SEARCH METHOD - A computer system and node search method capable of reducing node discovery time in the computer system with a large number of nodes and a large number of supported protocols is proposed. The computer system includes a management server which is connected to each of first and second nodes via a network and collects and manages first information for each of the first and second nodes including network addresses of the first and second nodes and a protocol type of a communication protocol to be used when communicating with the first or second node. When the management server searches the first and second nodes over the network and detects the second node, it acquires the network address of each first node managed by the second node and the protocol type of the communication protocol to be used when communicating with the first node.

CONTROL METHOD OF VIRTUAL MACHINE AND VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM - A method of controlling a virtual machine, including: detecting a predetermined trigger by a management server; acquiring a relationship between a virtualization unit and a virtual machine operated on a physical computer; specifying a virtual machine as a migration target based on preset trigger definition information; determining a physical computer of a migration destination based on a preset first control pattern to generate a first plan to migrate the virtual machine as the migration destination; transforming the first control pattern to a second control pattern; generating a second plan to migrate the virtual machine as the migration destination; performing arithmetic an evaluation value of the first plan and an evaluation value of the second plan; selecting one of the evaluation values meeting a predetermined condition as an execution plan; and migrating by the management server the virtual machine as the migration target based on the selected execution plan.

10-23-2014

20150067401

COMPUTER RECOVERY METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A computer recovery method for a computer system, the computer system having: a management computer having a processor and a memory; and a computer having a processor, a memory, and a monitoring part for notifying, when an abnormality occurs, the management computer of the abnormality, the management computer being configured to instruct recovery from the abnormality, the computer recovery method having: a first step of obtaining, by the management computer, hardware components and software components of the computer as configuration information; a second step of receiving, by the management computer, notification of an abnormality from the monitoring part of the computer; and a third step of generating, by the management computer, after the notification is received, component string information for identifying a component where the abnormality has occurred from the configuration information.

PRINTING SYSTEM, SHEET SUPPLY SUPPORTING METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A printing system, comprises a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to a network and including sheet trays and a detecting section provided to each sheet tray and to detect a capacity of empty space of each sheet tray; and a sheet managing section to obtain a capacity of empty space of each sheet tray of each image forming apparatus and to compare the capacity of empty space of each sheet tray with a capacity of one bundle of sheets as a unit of supply. In the case that the capacity of empty space of a sheet tray among the plural sheet trays of the plurality of image forming apparatuses is equal to or larger than the capacity of one plural bundle of sheets, the sheet managing section notifies that sheet supply can be conducted by one bundle of sheets as a unit of supply to the sheet tray.

12-24-2009

20100019436

TAB SHEET INSERTION APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a tab sheet supply unit and a control unit. The tab sheet supply unit supplies tab sheets of an identical type from an identical sheet supply tray as a chapter tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a first level of classification of a document to be printed, as well as a section tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a second level that is a finer level of classification than the first level of classification. The control unit causes the tab sheet contained in the sheet supply tray to be discharged as an unnecessary tab sheet, if the tab position of the tab sheet to be supplied next from the sheet supply tray does not match with the tab position of the tab sheet to be inserted next during the printing of the document, until both of the tab positions match.

01-28-2010

20100052243

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR ASSISTING PAPER SHEET SUPPLYING OPERATION AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF THE SAME - Described is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to create a vacant tray. The apparatus includes a paper sheet managing section to conduct consecutive operations including: acquiring the residual amount of the paper sheets accommodated in each of plurality paper sheet trays; calculating a total sum of residual amounts of paper sheets having the same attributes; comparing the above-calculated total sum with the maximum accommodating capacity of each of the paper sheet trays currently accommodating the paper sheets concerned; and notifying the operator of the fact that a vacant tray can be made by collecting the paper sheets concerned into a specific paper sheet tray, if there exists such paper sheets and a combination of paper sheet trays that make the total sum of the residual amounts of the paper sheets equal to or smaller than the maximum accommodating capacity of the specific paper sheet tray.

03-04-2010

20110199625

PRINT DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - A print data generation apparatus for generating a print data which causes an image indicated to be printed and a first mark, being printed by using a color erasable print material whose color is erasable by exposing to specific wavelength light, to be printed on a same recording sheet.

08-18-2011

20110266740

TAB SHEET INSERTION APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a tab sheet supply unit and a control unit. The tab sheet supply unit supplies tab sheets of an identical type from an identical sheet supply tray as a chapter tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a first level of classification of a document to be printed, as well as a section tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a second level that is a finer level of classification than the first level of classification. The control unit causes the tab sheet contained in the sheet supply tray to be discharged as an unnecessary tab sheet, if the tab position of the tab sheet to be supplied next from the sheet supply tray does not match with the tab position of the tab sheet to be inserted next during the printing of the document, until both of the tab positions match.

11-03-2011

Patent applications by Yukihiko Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

Yukio Ichikawa, Tokyo JP

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Description

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20090300679

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program and information processing system - An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a content information acquisition unit that acquires content related information related to content data managed by a content management server from the content management server managing the content data, a selection unit that selects content from a content list which is a list of the content based on the content related information, and an externally connected device control unit that notifies, when the selected content is executed by an externally connected device connected externally, the externally connected device of location information of content data corresponding to the selected content and acquires reproduction state information representing a reproduction state of content when the externally connected device reproduces the selected content from the externally connected device.

12-03-2009

20130232528

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus receives a user selection of content to be reproduced by an external device connected to the information processing apparatus. A request to reproduce the user selected content is sent to the external device. Information indicating whether the external device has started reproducing the selected content is received from the external device. In response to the external device having started reproduction of the selected content, a thumbnail image is reproduced that corresponds to the content being reproduced by the external device.